Himanshu Goenka

Results of a simulation of Earth’s formation using current theories suggest the planet’s core should contain a lot of zinc, but there is thought to actually be none.

Of the many factors that must come together on a planetary body to allow the possibility of life as we know it, the age of the parent star is also an important one.

In the harsh environment of space, computers are highly vulnerable to degradation due to radiation. An experiment by the space agency and Hewlett Packard is hoping to change that.

Astronomers are studying IC 10, a starburst galaxy first observed 130 years ago. It has over a dozen black holes and neutron stars that exist in binary X-ray systems.

The biography, titled “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future,” was written by Ashlee Vance, a business columnist, and published in 2015.

The total solar eclipse occurring Aug. 21 is the first to be visible from coast-to-coast of mainland United States in almost 100 years. The next one will happen in 2024.

A study of stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way tests gravitational physics, as well as Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

Chosen under the space agency’s Explorers Program, two of the proposals to study planets, stars, and galaxies will be finalized by 2019 for construction and launch.

An active dynamo in the lunar core is thought to have generated the moon’s magnetic field which disappeared due to unknown reasons sometime between 1 and 2.5 billion years ago.

The observations of solar activity come weeks ahead of the upcoming total solar eclipse, the first one to be visible from the United States in 99 years.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared Sunday the first animation of what the launch, and landing, could look like, but also said there is a “lot that can go wrong in the November launch…”

The observation was also remarkable for being made during the twilight of dawn, a time when most astronomers have already packed up for the night.

The popular dating app, following a letter from PETA to founder Sean Rad, has urged its users to take down pictures of them posing with the big cats.

Borealopelta markmitchelli lived 110 million years ago, and even though it was big and armored, it used camouflage to hide from meat-eating dinosaur predators.

The corona is several hundred times hotter than the 6,000 degrees temperature of the sun’s surface, and this mysterious difference could be linked to solar magnetic activity.

A new method to weigh a single proton found discrepancies with the scientifically accepted weight, and will likely lead to other physicists revisiting one of the fundamental values of physics.

Central United States, particularly Oklahoma and southern Kansas, have seen a dramatic rise in human-induced earthquakes over the last few years, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Even though they were first discovered — accidentally — 50 years ago, pulsars are still a source of mystery (and of course, emission pulses with precise and regular intervals).

Accounts on the micro-blogging platform with more than 10 million followers showed activity more in line with automated accounts than other humans, a University of Cambridge study found.

Two studies published Monday, one about Proxima b and the other a generic one, said planets even in the so-called Goldilocks zones around their stars were not necessarily habitable.

NASA’s upcoming space telescope, scheduled for an October 2018 launch, is the successor to, and more powerful than, the Hubble Space Telescope.

Two separate studies published Monday reached similar conclusions about the state of climate change, with one predicting a more dire outcome than the other.

The supernova, observed first on May 23, is unusual for its composition of heavier elements, as well as for its location in a large spiral galaxy only 420 million light-years away.

Some of the oldest and largest galaxies in the universe are full of stars that are dead or dying, but scientists don’t know for certain how these astral dead zones came to be.

Astrophysicists from Germany, Romania and the United Kingdom also found how stellar light controls the production of the highest-energy photons that make gamma-rays.

The private space transport company’s CEO Elon Musk made the announcement late Thursday on his Instagram and Twitter accounts.

Thought to occur when a massive star collapses into a neutron or quark star or a black hole, or when two neutron stars merge, gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe.

In a report released Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission said the offer, sale, and purchase of cryptocurrencies had to adhere to the U.S. federal securities laws.

New study of satellite data of volcanic deposits across the lunar surface suggests parts of the moon’s mantle have as much water as Earth’s interior.